It’s so frustrating! I’m doing lots of writing but hardly any of it is creative 
I’m so bogged down with other stuff right now that I can barely muster any creative thoughts. When I can, it’s usually the middle of the night and my husband is a light sleeper so I don’t want to turn the light on to write because he’ll wake.
I got quite a good pass for my first assignment, a good foundation to build on, but my tutor group has gone very quiet now. Our tutor posted a ‘character sketch’ informal writing exercise however only three have responded (including me) and she obviously doesn’t have enough time to give much feedback which is rather disheartening. Nevertheless, she has responded to both of the other pieces of writing. When I queried the lack of response to mine, I got a rather terse reply which basically said she was too busy to spend much time doing ‘extras’ above and beyond her other responsibilities both in and out of the OU.
The next online tutorial for our group is coming up soon and three dates were suggested. The first was the only one that was suitable for me because we’re going away again on December 8th for eleven days. Unfortunately, everyone else plumped for the second of the three weeks which means that it will start just as I’m getting organised for going away. I’ll have four or five days to take part before we have to leave. So, having missed the first online tutorial completely, it looks like I shall have a severely curtailed second online tutorial …
In the meantime, the First Class OU conferencing system is only working sporadically for me – sometimes I can log in and other times I can’t
*sigh*
